Connecticut western news., 1887-06-22
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Mary Ann Valentine, daughter of George Valentine of EtnaborouSh, Pa., was found lying on the hillside short distance from her home in an insensible condition, with bullet hole near the right eye. She had left the house shortly after supper to meet her father, carrying with her some money that Mr. Val entine wanted to use at building and loan association meeting. No one saw the shoct- ing, but Fritz Weimau, & German, who was seen in the neighborhood intoxicated, is sus- pected, and has been arrested.
 A wagon load of nitro-gycerine exploded at Clean, N. Y., completely annihilating Lew Hart, the driver, together with the horses and vehicle.
 -'Dago Joe," tho ''Greaser," who short time ago killed yonng man at Shelby Sta tion, Miss, was lynched by 200 masked men near Cleveland, Miss.
 Tho extensive stables of the Mound City Street Car Company iii St. Louis were de- stroycl by fire. A number of mules were burnel. Loss, S50,O00.
 Robert Packer, Q brakeman on the Chi cago and Northwestern Railway, was killed near Norway, Mich He was thrown upon the track, and the entire train train passed over him.
 An explosion of dynamite occurred in the mines of the Tennesse Coal, Iron and Railway Company at Inman, Tenn, where most of the employees are convicts. The company of late has been employing English miners, and five these were killed and a number injured.
 --The old Watuppa Mills at Fall River, Mass, were damaged S3O,000 by fire.
 Company F. Fifth United States Artillery, are marching from Wilmington, Del, 10 Fort Hamilton.
 Walter and Ben Collum, the murderers of Captain Landman in Yazoo county, Miss, have been captured.
 Frank McCa'ty, aged 27, and Nellie Vance, aged 27, e,opers from Wheeling, W. Va, have been arrested in Philadelphia. They had been married, but McCarty is said to have anothet wife.
 The wife of Row. T. W. pinkerton of Deca- tur, Ill.,. poured gasoline into coffee pot by mistake and placed it on the stove. By the explosion winch followed her 11-year-old son was fatally burned and her husband and her self were badly injured.
 Walter Webster, aged 1S of Hamilton, O., shot himself through the heart because his .wcetheart refused him a goodnight kiss.
 Charles K. Brown, an old and wealthy resident. one of the proprietors of the Rob Roy Hosiery Mills at Troy, N. Y., was found dead in bed.
 The Indian Council at Eufaua has adopted a memorial to the President. on the land ques- tion. The Indians desire the present severalty laws repealed.
 -Ebenczcr Stanyard, who about two monthJ ago shot and killed Alice Hancox, a girl wnom he loved, and a'so attempted to shoot her
  been found guilty of murder in the first de- gree.
 kentucky is producing whisky faster than the whole country can use it.
 The American Medical Association favors cremation.
 John II. Thurston, bookkeeper of tho Cambridge (Mass.) Savings Bank, is de- faultcr.
 A fire in the Union Block at Springfield. Mass, did nearly s50,C0O damage.
 Natural gas has commenced flowing with great force from an artesian well at Groton Duk
 Tho yacht Atalanta with Jay Gould and family on board, arrived at Fortress Monroe. -Sev nty thousand persons attended tho Natural Gas Celebration at .ndlay, O., and more would have been there if the railroads could have transported them.
 In Boston. David T. Winter obtained verdict of slo, GOO against the New York; Lake Eric, and Western Railway for unlawful eject ment from a train in 1882.
 Joseph H. Corbett, first sistant city clerk, and l.. H. Breck, of Cleveland, O., have been arrested, charged with forging will by which the la. ter's wife was to have received considerable property.
 The hostile Apaches crossed the railroad track one mile west of Pontsno, and were hotly pursued by Johnson's and Lawton commands They were he aded north for the Santa Canta- lima mountains.
 The dome of the great telescope on the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Gal has been placed in position: The telescope will be ready for use in September
 Charles Coppins has recovered SIS, 800 damages from the New York Central Railroad for injuries received at St. Johnsville while he was acting as brakeman in 1880.
 Three train hands and number of pas engers were injured by the ditching of train on the Detroit Lansing and Northern Rail- road. near Merrill, Mich.